John Barry
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Paul wrote 2 Corinthians with a heavy heart, wrestling to maintain his relationship with the young church that he established. The way that Paul handled this painful situation provides an example for us today. When should we reconcile, and when should we walk away? How do we cut ties with darkness--whether in ourselves or in others? In this volume from the Transformative Word series, edited by Craig Bartholomew, John D. Barry explores how we deal...
3) Sea Yarns
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Sea Yarns by John Arthur Barry is a collection of ocean-faring tales with real details based on Barry's sailing experiences off the east coast of Australia. Barry writes nautical tales about his dangerous life at sea and his exhilarating adventures as an English first mate.
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Psychologist Lamar Rose's father is suffering from cancer and dementia, and wants his son to kill him and end his suffering. Lamar refuses, but his father keeps asking, and he relents. Then, from the pulpit of the church at his father's memorial, Lamar's sister accuses him of murder.When I Killed My Father is a page-turner with a conscience, about a man caught between what is compassionate and what is legal. It addresses heavy and provocative issues...
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Short Stories Volume 1 by John Arthur Barry is about wise tricksters and travelers in America. Excerpt: "To everyone concerned it was admitted that Mr. James Hunter, or the "Toff Bird"-which latter was the most popular of his many aliases-stood at the very head of his mixed profession. I use the adjective advisedly; for, in addition to being an accomplished burglar, he was-and the blend is most uncommon-a very competent and successful chevalier d'industrie."...
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Short Stories Volume 4 is a set of brief tales by John Arthur Barry. Barry was a journalist and author. Excerpt: "As time went on, the better class of swagmen, knowing that it was utterly useless to think of obtaining food, shelter, or work there, gave Waajil a wide berth. But even then Morgan often happened to catch them on the run, across which he was accustomed to ride day and night. On one occasion he found a traveller camped in a river bed, evidently...
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Discover how individual passages of Scripture relate to the whole as you read through the Bible in a year. Every day, you'll read a selection from the Old Testament, the New Testament, and poetic literature, along with a devotional tying them together. The application-focused content provides insight into the text, answers to theological questions, and explanations for difficult passages of Scripture. And thought-provoking questions help you live...
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Excerpt: "There have been occasions when, after long rest as a hulk lying in some land-locked cove, with little of its past history except the name left in people's memories, that once again the old ship has been brought forth, staunch as ever, to perform, it is hoped, faithful service on the outer seas. Something of this kind has happened in the case of "Steve Brown's Bunyip." The book has been so long out of print as to perhaps render any apology...
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Recounts the flooding of the Mississippi River in 1927 and its aftermath discussing how it influenced political elections, spurred a large migration of African-Americans northward, and forced a reexamination of governmental policy towards widespread disasters.
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Bestselling author John M. Barry has penned numerous works on a variety of historical subjects. Here Barry explores the development of the fundamental ideas of church and state through the story of Roger Williams. The first to link religious freedom to individual liberty, Williams helped shape the balance of religion and politics seen in America today.
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2009
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In the winter of 1918, at the height of World War I, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty-four weeks than AIDS has killed in twenty-four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision between modern...